Weekly Report
January 22, 2016
The Office of Planning and Assessment reports its weekly activities and contributions toward Texas Tech
University’s institutional effectiveness efforts.
OUTCOME 1: Texas Tech will be found in compliance with all external accrediting agencies and State
of Texas mandates
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OPA is working on a meta-analysis of all degree program assessment evidence. This analysis will be
ready next week. In the process of developing this report, OPA has developed a system for
managing documentation that can be used as a primary source of evidence for the SACSCOC
Monitoring Report due September 2016. For example, the Monitoring Report will include the
following sources of evidence: 2014-2015 TracDat reports, a post-consultation revised assessment
report, a summary of findings used for the consultation, and notes used for each consultation.
DigitalMeasures Activity:
Number of Records Added and Edited in the Last...
(Number of
Logins)
8 Hours
1 Day
2 Days
Activities
Database 1,108
2,636
6,292
University
(112,666)
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1 Week
1 Month
6 Months
1 Year
13,633
24,458
43,738
72,270
Quality Enhancement Plan: Communicating In a Global Society Weekly Update:
o OPA has registered for the GPI to be administered this spring. A GPI administration plan is in
development.
OUTCOME 2: The Office of Planning and Assessment will contribute to the Office of the Provost’s
institutional planning processes
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Student training sessions for iPortfolios started this week, with two sessions offered each day.
Although attendance has been minimal, students who have attended are being helped with
individual needs. These include the following:
o Learning how to submit an assignment;
o Making their own portfolio with their own table of contents; and
o How to submit a reflection piece through the journal section of Chalk and Wire
OPA continues to explore opportunities for including new partners for the second year of the
iPortfolio. OPA met with Garth Smith (Architecture) this week, and a meeting is scheduled with
Angela Smith and Sarai Brinker (Music) for February 3.
The Writing Skills module is scheduled and materials have been ordered and organized for testing
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administration. A CAAP luncheon was hosted on Friday, January 22 to meet the instructors and
answer questions. The first testing begins January 26th and concludes February 5th. OPA staff
members attended a brief CAAP orientation this morning to familiarize themselves with testing
procedures. Administration instruction materials are included in this report.
A significant amount of work continues to go into cleaning up the Raiders Engaged database
information for proper upload into DigitalMeasures. There were some problems with formatting
that did not become apparent until DigitalMeasures contacted OPA. DigitalMeasures has been very
responsive and the issue should be resolved soon.
OUTCOME 3: The Office of Planning and Assessment will continually monitor the university’s
compliance with laws, policy statements, and policies deriving from the State of Texas, THECB, and
SACSCOC
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THECB announced on January 20 that AT&T has contributed $400,000 to the College of All Texans
Foundation which will allow expansion of the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate (TAB) degree. This
degree seeks to turn ‘stop-outs’ or ‘drop outs’ into college graduates and is competency-based,
serving the non-traditional students that are the new majority in higher education. The degree is
currently available at Texas A&M University-Commerce and South Texas College. Students entering
the TAB program without prior credit should be able to complete their degree in three years for
$15,000 or less.
Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP) matches funds for emerging research universities.
Changes since the THECB approved FY 2016 and 2017 funding (which happened October, 2015)
required a reallocation of funds. The revised version for Texas Tech University includes a match of
$97,004 which will be moved from FY 2017 to FY 2016 for a total of $35,105,183.60 for FY 2016 and
receiving a new match of $7,103.05 in FY 2017 for a total of $12,766,346.64 so far for 2017.
OUTCOME 4: Texas Tech University faculty and staff will be well-prepared to meet OPA’s faculty
credentialing, assessment, and strategic plan expectations
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Due to the significant changes when logging onto TracDat 5, OPA created a training video to assist
faculty and staff with logging onto and entering data into TracDat. Faculty and staff will be directed
to the video if they call OPA with concerns or questions with TraDat. If faculty still need assistance,
an in-office appointment will be made.
o The video can be viewed at https://www.depts.ttu.edu/opa/tracdat/tracdatsr.php.
Faculty Annual Reports are underway for many faculty across the campus. This is evident from the
DigitalMeasures Usage Report under the first section of the Weekly Report. To better support this
effort, OPA is working closely with various departments. For example, Engineering reports were not
symmetrical. This issue was resolved.
In addition to direct contributions toward the departmental goals, OPA continues to focus on continuous
improvement measures.
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The Graduate School is building a SharePoint site to pull grading outcomes for the PPI cohorts.
Outcome data will be compiled into the spreadsheets and submitted to ETS by the end of the
month.
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